Foot – Market – PSG
Before the financial crisis caused by the Covid-19, Leonardo seemed to be working on the recruitment of a goalkeeper to replace Keylor Navas in order to succeed him in the long term at PSG. However, the situation is very different now.
Back at the head of the sports direction of PSG last summer, Leonardo put his paw on the last summer transfer window and changed everything for the goalkeepers. Gianluigi Buffon is gone and Alphonse areola went to the side of Real Madrid on loan when Keylor Navas, Marcin Bulka and Sergio Rico arrived. The latter was loaned with an option to purchase. An OA that the PSG didn’t want to get up, having other priorities like André Onana and Gianluigi Donnarumma to recite nobody else but them. However, the situation seems to have changed now. The uncheck revealed in recent days that Leonardo would ultimately be inclined to the idea of keeping Sergio Rico, provided that the FC Seville agrees to lower its purchase option, which is set at € 10 million. Negotiations could take place in the coming days. Why such a turnaround? According to The Parisian, PSG would have more than € 70M to invest this summer, the club having recorded losses of more than € 200M after the championship stopped because of the Covid-19. But this is not the only reason.
In addition to the Covid-19, the Onana and Donnarumma runways are complicated
In recent weeks, two names have regularly appeared in the press to prepare the succession of Keylor Navas, which will blow its 34th candle next December. June 26, Calciomercato.com revealed that discussions should soon take place between Paolo Maldini and the Gianluigi Donnarumma clan for a contract extension, which runs until June 2021. And according to the sporting director of the Milan AC for DAZN, Donnarumma would likely stay in the rossoneri club. “It is certainly Milan’s duty to try to keep an important player like Gigio, for what he represents as a symbol, a player who left our youth academy and, in my humble opinion, because he is the best goalkeeper in the world. “ The position of Milan AC seems clear: to keep the Italian international by extending his contract. On the side ofAndré Onana, which is in the process of leaving in recent weeks, the Cameroonian international could also spend the summer atajax Amsterdam according to his trainer Erik Ten Hag. “Agreements have been concluded with André Onana, Donny van de Beek and Nicolás Tagliafico, but we have to see if the market will actually become free. For Onana and Van de Beek, another year at Ajax could certainly be an option ”. So the PSG may well be forced to review their plans and possibly find an internal solution.
The obligation to find options at the club?
Loaned to Real Madrid without purchase option, Alphonse areola will go back to PSG this summer, at the end of his loan period. But could he ultimately stay? The tri-color world champion would not want to be confined to a role of understudy, but in view of the decrease in market values for a possible sale, a flip-flop could be operated on the part of the PSG. In any event, information disclosed in the Spanish press regarding negotiations for the option to purchase Sergio Rico suggests that the Spaniard should continue to be number two in Keylor Navas next season. Nothing seems to be finished in this file, but what is a certainty, it is that a big offensive should not be launched this summer in this sector of play.
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